Good news: Wan Norshaheeda Azlin’s mother Zaharah Mamat, 47, (second from left) expressed gratitude for the decision of the Narathiwat Provincial Court to acquit her daughter and five other individuals of drug possession charges. — Bernama
NARATHIWAT: Malaysian dikir barat singer Wan Norshaheeda Azlin Wan Ismail, or better known as Eda Ezrin, her husband and four others have been freed from charges of having 6,059 yaba pills.
The court here released them after finding no evidence to connect the possession of the drug with all the accused persons, namely the 30-year-old singer, her husband Mohd Affendi Ahmad, 35, Eridieka Mohd Noor, 33, Mohamad Alif Deraman, 33, Nur Aida Mamat, 33, and Zuhaira Nasrin, 26.
The court also found that the CCTV footage at a hotel in Sungai Golok here did not show the six individuals bringing all the drugs into the rooms.
“On the contrary, there were three other individuals who brought the drugs into the rooms of the six accused,” one of the judges on the panel said when reading out their decision in Thai with Malay translation.
The six accused were previously sentenced to six months in jail and fined 4,000 Thai baht (RM526) after pleading guilty to another charge of consuming yaba pills, Bernama reported.
They were exempted from paying the fine after serving four months in jail and demonstrating good behaviour throughout their detention at the Narathiwat Prison.
However, their lawyer said that the prosecution could file an appeal within a month.
“At the moment, all six of my clients have not yet been allowed to leave and must remain in prison while waiting for the prosecution to file an appeal.
“If there is no appeal, they will be allowed to return to Malaysia,” he said.
